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Bottom Rung
With Paige, we wanted to avoid the typical, perfect unattainable girl. We wanted a girl with her own issues and problems. Honestly, how else would she end up down in document review? It’s not a world filled with lookers. So we came up with the backstory that she was in a band and she sort of had a phase were she dated and slept with a lot of drummers.
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Meet Paige Brenner, Loyola law grad, solo artist. She blames a drummer for getting her into doc review.
Watch the rest of the Bottom Rung, including character sketches of the dreamers, gunners, and lifers that make up document review.
Nicole Baxter is Bottom Rung’s Grinch, the character who wants nothing good to happen to anyone down in the dungeon of doc review. Because she has a chip on her shoulder about her lack of education compared to everyone else, she has turned her latest project into a little fiefdom. And she’ll be damned if anyone tries to contest her authority.
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Doc review gunners often race through documents, literally shortening the length of a doc review project. So when Skolnick in Episode 3 explains that he wants to be a “sniper” and snipe his way to the top—whatever that top could possibly be—Tim complains to him that he’s just “taking money out of our pockets.” Throughout the season, you will see dreamers like Tim try to work around Skolnik and his conniving ways.
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Frank Wu is part of the core dreamer group on the Bottom Rung. Much like Tim, though, the term “schemer” would be more appropriate. Deep down, he knows he was probably a gaming nerd who did not get a lot of girls. Now he’s hell-bent on trying to be a big shot like the people he sees in the movies—at least that’s what he tells other people.
Watch the rest of the Bottom Rung, including character sketches of the dreamers, gunners, and lifers that make up document review.
See more of the Bottom Rung on Bitter Lawyer, including a growing collection of characters who make up the dark and hilarious underworld of document review.
On every document review, there is usually one guy who is vocal about the terrible working conditions. In truth, most of us feel this way. But we need the money and say nothing, accepting conditions that are less than ideal—and, on occasion, working conditions that are illegal. Garvey Harris is the guy who thinks all of us need to take a stand. He’s a rabble rouser. The problem is, we have no leverage and the bosses know it. Anyone who makes a peep is summarily dismissed, never to be heard from again, and possibly blacklisted from further doc review work. So we all suffer in silence.
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